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To: ThinkDifferent; Liberal Classic
...where they find messages encoded in the decimal expansion of pi...

There is a conjecture that all possible sequences of digits appear in pi. IIRC, this is true for almost all real numbers, but no-one knows how to prove (or disprove) it for pi.

132 posted on 12/02/2005 5:40:36 PM PST by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American
There is a conjecture that all possible sequences of digits appear in pi.

Right. But say at the quadrillionth decimal place you find a sequence of a million zeros, then a million ones, then a sequence of ones and zeros that forms a recognizable picture when plotted as a bitmap. Even though you'd expect that sequence to appear *somewhere* in pi, the odds against it occuring so early by "chance" would be astronomical.

135 posted on 12/02/2005 5:57:58 PM PST by ThinkDifferent (I am a leaf on the wind)
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